Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz

Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz

Like the best true life adventures, the story of Werner Pelz is
stranger than fiction. Forced to flee Nazi Germany for being
Jewish, he was then interned in England for being German. Shipped
to Australia on the notorious HMT Dunera, he spent two years in
internment camps in Hay and Tatura.

After returning to Britain, his life evolved into a spiritual
quest that led him to become an Anglican vicar, to author popular
books (including God Is No More), to frequently appear on
the BBC, and to become a Guardian columnist. Decades after his
wartime Australian exile, he returned to teach Sociology at La
Trobe University, continuing his search for a new way of thinking,
a new mythology.

In the mid-1980s, a young university student, Roger Averill, was
taught by this quietly charismatic man. The two developed an
unlikely friendship, one that was to last until Werners death,
after which Rogers research unexpectedly revealed a deeper
dimension a personal life filled with familial drama, pain and
poignancy.

Both memoir and biography, Exile: The Lives and Hopes of
Werner Pelz is a compelling account of a remarkable man’s
life-long search for a truth unbound by orthodoxy.

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